WRFG’s Route 66 celebrates a time when blues, jazz, and R&B blended
together, often in the same song. The focus is on the the Jump Blues and
Early Rock’n’Roll Eras (1940s to mid-1950s) and on how those styles
and artists have evolved over the years.
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Dizzy Gillespie is today’s featured artist. Born John Birks Gillespie in Cheraw, South Carolina on October 21, 1917, Gillespie was a jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer.He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge, but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz. His combination of musicianship, showmanship, and wit made him
a leading popularizer of the new music called bebop. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, scat singing, bent horn, pouched cheeks, and light-hearted personality
have made him an enduring icon. – wikipedia
DIZZY GILLESPIE RESOURCES
Biography @ wikipedia.org
Discography @ discogs.com
National Endowment for the Arts
Polar Music Prize
WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2023
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
X-Temperaneous Boogie Camille Howard Specialty Records 1948
Lady Be Good
Joe Carrol & Dizzy Gillespie
Dee Gee Records 1951
Manteca
Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
RCA Victor 1948
How High the Moon
Ella Fitzgerald w/ Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, September 29, 1947
Flip, Flop And Fly Van Morrison Accentuate The Positive 2023
Lonesome Woman Blues T-Bone Walker Comet Records 1948
West Side Baby Floyd McDaniel Let Your Hair Down! 1994
They Call Me Big Mama Big Mama Thornton Peacock Records 1953
Pool Playing Blues Amos Milburn Aladdin Records 1947
Gambler’s Blues Dinah Washington Mercury Records 1953
I Only Have Eyes For You Billie Holiday …Sings 1952
Someday You’ll Be Sorry Jimmy T99 Nelson Take Your Pick 2002
Money’s Getting Cheaper
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Charles Brown
Exclusive Records 1948
Honky-Tonk Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Live From Austin, TX 1997
Interlude (A Night In Tunesia)
Sarah Vaughan w/ Dizzy Gillespie & His Jazzmen
East of the Sun 1947
You Stole My Wife You Horse Thief
Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra w/ John Coltraine
Capitol Records 1949
Groovin High
Charlie Parker w/ Dizzy Gillespie
Live at Carnegie Hall September 29, 1947
Ooh-Pop-A-Dah Dirty
Dozen Brass Band w/ Dizzy Gillespie
Voodoo 1989
Bad Tale Boogie Jay McShann & His Jazz Men Philo Records 1945
TV Is the Thing This Year Dianne Reeves Good Night, & Good Luck 2011
Jumpin’ at the Woodside The Count Basie Orchestra Late Night Basie 2023
I’ve Got A Woman Ray Charles At Newport 1958
Daddy O Louis Jordan & Martha Davis Decca Records 1949
Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Cryin’
Shirley Horn w/ Wynton Marsalis
You Won’t Forget Me 1990
I Beeped When I Shoulda Bopped Cab Calloway RCA Bluebird Series 1949
This Joint’s Too Hip For Me Betty Hall Jones Capitol Records 1949
Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
Dizzy Gillespie
Swing Low Sweet Cadillac 1967
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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